Greenlands Ice Sheet melting

Using a novel technique that reveals regional changes in the weight of the massive ice sheet across the entire continent, scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., report that Greenland’s low coastal regions lost 155 gigatons (41 cubic miles) of ice per year between 2003 and 2005 from excess melting and icebergs, while the high-elevation interior gained 54 gigatons (14 cubic miles) annually from excess snowfall. The study appears in Science Express, the advance edition of Science, on Oct. 19.

In conclusion…
If all the above mentioned melted ice runs into the ocean, and if a cubic mile of ice is roughly the same as a cubic mile of water then the ocean should rise by about a third of a millimeter each year.

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